mick crane wrote: >songbird wrote: ... >> i used to take the USB stick to the library to download >> big packages when needing updates. glad i haven't had to >> do that in a while, but i still have a relatively slow >> connection (about 10M/minute) compared to many, but it's >> much better than dialup. > > think I did that once to build Scribus, tracking down the dependencies > was a nightmare.
i would generate a list of files via apt-get and then take that with me so all i had to do was edit a file and copy and past the paths to download each file. wasn't pleasant, but it did work. songbird
